Plant and Fungal Food Components with Potential Activity on the Development of Microbial Oral Diseases

Joint Authors

Wilson, Michael
Signoretto, Caterina
Gazzani, Gabriella
Papetti, Adele
Giusto, Giovanni
Lingström, Peter
Mascherpa, Dora
Zaura, Egija
Spratt, David A.
Pratten, Jonathan
Daglia, Maria
Grisoli, Pietro

Source

BioMed Research International

Issue

Vol. 2011, Issue 2011 (31 Dec. 2011), pp.1-9, 9 p.

Publisher

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Publication Date

2011-10-17

Country of Publication

Egypt

No. of Pages

9

Main Subjects

Medicine

Abstract EN

This paper reports the content in macronutrients, free sugars, polyphenols, and inorganic ions, known to exert any positive or negative action on microbial oral disease such as caries and gingivitis, of seven food/beverages (red chicory, mushroom, raspberry, green and black tea, cranberry juice, dark beer).

Tea leaves resulted the richest material in all the detected ions, anyway tea beverages resulted the richest just in fluoride.

The highest content in zinc was in chicory, raspberry and mushroom.

Raspberry is the richest food in strontium and boron, beer in selenium, raspberry and mushroom in copper.

Beer, cranberry juice and, especially green and black tea are very rich in polyphenols, confirming these beverages as important sources of such healthy substances.

The fractionation, carried out on the basis of the molecular mass (MM), of the water soluble components occurring in raspberry, chicory, and mushroom extracts (which in microbiological assays revealed the highest potential action against oral pathogens), showed that both the high and low MM fractions are active, with the low MM fractions displaying the highest potential action for all the fractionated extracts.

Our findings show that more compounds that can play a different active role occur in these foods.

American Psychological Association (APA)

Daglia, Maria& Papetti, Adele& Mascherpa, Dora& Grisoli, Pietro& Giusto, Giovanni& Lingström, Peter…[et al.]. 2011. Plant and Fungal Food Components with Potential Activity on the Development of Microbial Oral Diseases. BioMed Research International،Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-9.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)

Daglia, Maria…[et al.]. Plant and Fungal Food Components with Potential Activity on the Development of Microbial Oral Diseases. BioMed Research International No. 2011 (2011), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-989964

American Medical Association (AMA)

Daglia, Maria& Papetti, Adele& Mascherpa, Dora& Grisoli, Pietro& Giusto, Giovanni& Lingström, Peter…[et al.]. Plant and Fungal Food Components with Potential Activity on the Development of Microbial Oral Diseases. BioMed Research International. 2011. Vol. 2011, no. 2011, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-989964

Data Type

Journal Articles

Language

English

Notes

Includes bibliographical references

Record ID

BIM-989964